Baltimore city, US government officials want oil companies to pay for their direct contributions to climate change. In Baltimore, citizens have suffered the devastating effects associated with climate change.
By 2080, around 70% of the world's oceans could be suffocating from a lack of oxygen as a result of climate change, potentially impacting marine ecosystems worldwide.
Projections suggest that stronger, tornado-producing storms may be more likely as global temperatures rise, though strengthened less than we might expect from the increase in available energy.
The study finds that the amount of heat in the oceans last year broke the previous 2020 record by around 14 zettajoules. That’s equivalent to at least 20 times the entire world’s annual energy consumption.
The project, called Earth's Black Box, is a giant steel archive on the remote Australian island of Tasmania, so that if some future society might one day discover the archive, they'll be able to piece together what happened to our planet.
Wildfires in California over the past five years have claimed nearly 20% of the world’s largest Sequoias. Last year alone, forest fires claimed nearly 10,400 trees.
Nvidia is building what it calls “the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to predicting climate change. The system will be called Earth-2.
Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Sweden, Wales and Quebec are bravely taking the lead in a commitment to stop exploring for and producing oil and gas.
Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as early as 2030 under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, according to a new NASA study published in the journal, Nature Food.
French oil company TotalEnergies knew at least 50 years ago about a link between burning fossil fuels and global warming, researchers have said.
The global average of carbon dioxide concentrations hit a new high of 413.2 parts per million last year, according to the WMO report. It was higher than the annual average over the last decade, despite a 5.6% drop of CO2 due to Covid.
The average temperature at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station between April and September, a frigid minus - 61 Celsius and was the coldest on record, dating back to 1957.
Google advertisers and publishers, as well as YouTube creators, will be prohibited from making ad revenue off content that denies climate change. It's one of the most aggressive measures major tech platform has taken so far.
The world’s biggest historical carbon gas emitters from year 1850 to 2021 (in descending order) are: the USA, China, Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, Germany, India, UK, Japan, Canada.
Researchers are developing artificial intelligence that could assess climate change tipping points. The deep learning algorithm could act as an early warning system against runaway climate change.
